[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks digest, Vol 1 #693 - 22 msgs

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

Note that I said he has little, if any, sense of smell. Thus, vanilla,
which is pretty much an olfactory sensation, is lost on him. As is
garlic--it just tastes sharp to him. I'm not entirely sure why shallots
and green onions are included. It may be because he misses the nuances of
the various alliums entirely, or that the Sunset cookbooks, from which he
taught himself to cook, call for one or the other, mostly the green
onions, in most of the savory recipes.

Margaret

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, johnna holloway wrote:

> I thought the addition of vanilla, shallots,
> green onions, and garlic were part of the
> recipe conspiracy whereby the article with
> "original, new" recipes is due, so the writer
> gets out the old standby standard source (be it
> BH&G, BC, FF, or NYT) and adds vanilla or
> whatever and Look ... a new recipe.
> Think about it.
>
> Johnna Holloway
>
> "Pixel, Goddess and Queen" wrote:
>  Apparently your brain, if you are exposed to a particular odor for an
> > extended period of time, starts ignoring it, so that you don't smell it
> > anymore. I'd imagine that people who wear the same perfume all the time
> > have conditioned their brains to ignore the scent, so they're not smelling
> > it anymore so they put more on.>
> > Like in high school, when the girls would put more perfume on after gym
> > class. To this day, the smells of Heaven Scent and Love's Baby Soft make
> > me physically ill.>
> > My love and inspiration has almost no sense of smell, so garlic does very
> > little for him. He claims it's part of the 'vanilla conspiracy', which is
> > a conspiracy on the part of cookbook writers in conjunction with the
> > vanilla manufacturers to include vanilla in all the recipes for baked
> > goods so people will continue to buy vanilla. Things included in the
> > vanilla conspiracy are shallots, green onions, and garlic.
> > Margaret FitzWilliam